How the Light Gets In
solo exhibition
Photospace Gallery, 37 Courtney Place, Wellington
www.photospacegallery.com
21st November 2015 - 13th February 2016
Photospace Gallery, 37 Courtney Place, Wellington
www.photospacegallery.com
21st November 2015 - 13th February 2016
The photographs were made in unremarkable nooks and crannies of Palmerston North and Whanganui, places where I happen to live and work. Terrain Vague, places of indeterminate purpose, left alone to be themselves. Magical places where the past is allowed to fester undisturbed.
The prints are hand poured silver gelatin emulsion on glass. This too is an imperfect process. All prints are flawed. All are unique.
Often, when making a photograph, I have the urge to steal. I have taken souvenirs – assorted plant species whose seeds drifted on the wind or were carried in the bowels of animals, taken to nowhere in particular for no apparent reason. Their fate was transmutation into silver by the sling casting process, a combined act of craft, alchemy and pure luck that can, on a good day, produce perfectly formed effigies of the sacrificed specimen.
A tangible index echoing the alchemical nature of the photograph.
The prints are hand poured silver gelatin emulsion on glass. This too is an imperfect process. All prints are flawed. All are unique.
Often, when making a photograph, I have the urge to steal. I have taken souvenirs – assorted plant species whose seeds drifted on the wind or were carried in the bowels of animals, taken to nowhere in particular for no apparent reason. Their fate was transmutation into silver by the sling casting process, a combined act of craft, alchemy and pure luck that can, on a good day, produce perfectly formed effigies of the sacrificed specimen.
A tangible index echoing the alchemical nature of the photograph.
